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Directed by Various | 90 minutes | Unrated |
2:00pm Sunday, 17 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 3 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
Kicking off with Margot Nash and Robin Laurie's landmark feminist manifesto WE AIM TO PLEASE (1976), a piece of cinema's past that remains radicalising, this program of underground shorts explodes filmmaking conventions with a boundary-pushing survey of sex, gender, violence and liberation in contemporary Australia. A ghost haunts a gay sauna, a goddess goes to a strip club, and a jaded trans girl hooks up with a cop in shorts that range provocatively across intimate drama, expressionist doomscape and DV collage.
WE AIM TO PLEASE (1976, dir Margot Nash and Robin Laurie, 13 mins)
A wild and unruly exploration of female sexuality.
AMALTAAS (2025, dir Xoori K. Sarhadi, 4 mins)
In a foreign home, a newly married woman drifts through incense smoke, tea rituals and beauty masks.
(I SAW YOU) SHINE (2025, dir Angus McGrath, 19 mins)
A ghost haunts an abandoned gay sauna and becomes intrigued by a group of nihilists who want to form a band.
YOU ARE YOUR IMAGE AND YOUR IMAGE IS MINE (2026, dir Benjamin Woodard, 10 mins)
A filmmaker hires an actress to play the part of his murdered friend.
TRY ME (2026, dir Hamish Bruce, 19 mins)
A young trans woman and an older man go home together after a night out.
VENUS, EXAMINED (2025, dir Sophie Bagster, 24 mins)
The goddess of love wanders city streets in search of modern romance.
CONTENT WARNING: Flashing lights, discussions of sexual violence.
Country: Australia
Year: 1976, 2025, 2026
Language: English